Divine Manifestations — Page 30
30 unseen, and rivers of the unseen flow in it. As for some of my adversaries who claim to be recipients of Divine Revelation, their revelations do not contain the waves of the unseen, nor do they contain a surging stream of the mysteries of the Divine. Divine Might and Grandeur have, in fact, been nowhere near them. What is more, they themselves confess that they are not sure if their revelations originate from God or from Satan. That is why they usually hold the belief that their revelations have an element of conjecture, for they cannot say if these are from God or Satan. It is a shame to take pride in such revelations as do not possess enough light even to show that they are truly Divine and have not been inspired by Satan. God is Holy, while Satan is unclean. Hence, strange are these revelations for one cannot even determine with certainty if they originate from a pure fountain or from an impure and polluted one? The other dilemma is that anyone innocently following a satanic revelation, imagining it to be from God, would also fall into the pit of destruction. And conversely, one who does not follow a revelation from God, fearing lest it be from Satan, would also be ruined. So what are these revelations but a frightening dilemma